It’s hard to believe that the holiday season is well behind us and we are into the first week of February! This post was originally scheduled for a January submission but due to a recent good interruption last week (my attendance at the Heckerling Conference on Estate Planning in Orlando, Florida), there was a slight delay. Stay tuned for my musings of the conference in the coming weeks. Thank you! We all know that people download Wills off of Legal Zoom thinking that “some” plan in place is better than none at all; rather than incur the expense of engaging an attorney, their thought is to come up with a quick solution […]
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